This is my favourite decade for horror/slasher movies,I'm determined to watch all of them. There's so many I love
Happy birthday to me (1981)
Sleepaway Camp (1983)and the sequels
Blood rage (1987)
Fatal games (1984)
City of the living dead (1980)
Which is your favourite (s)?
I tried to go based on the ones that I found to be particularly good amongst the saturated swamp of campy films that were released around this time. There's a lot of bad with the good in this era, unfortunately, so I wanted to give you a few more (obscure) titles to add to your watchlist.
Some good ones that come to mind, aside from the usual 80s choices and ones already mentioned somewhere in this thread:
Alligator (1980) - Killer animal
Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981) - TV movie, supernatural, revenge
Just Before Dawn (1981) - Slasher, wilderness survival
Hell Night (1981) - Slasher, Gothic horror
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981) aka Night Warning - Slasher, crime
A Blade in the Dark (1983) aka La casa con la scala nel buio - Foreign, Giallo
Angst (1983) - Foreign, home-invasion
Sole Survivor (1983) - Supernatural
10 to Midnight (1983) - Crime
Humongous (1982) - Slasher
The Majorettes (1986) - Slasher, action
Near Dark (1987) - Vampire, western
Dolls (1987) - Supernatural, Gothic horror
Ghost Town (1988) - Supernatural, western
Scarecrows (1988) - Slasher, action
Intruder (1989) - Slasher
Two that I want to see are Next of Kin (1982) and Endangered Species (1982). There's a lot though that I want to see, but haven't been able to find. YouTube and Amazon Prime are usually the best bet though... and keep checking and often because stuff is getting put up and taken down so often on both services.
I've seen some on list but not all of them,I recently watched They Live(1988),that was a fun one.
shareReally wouldn't call this my favorite but it is one I really like and I haven't seen it mentioned in this thread yet. The Burning from 1981. Decent summer camp slasher movie with appearances by a young Jason Alexander and Holly Hunter.
shareYes also Fisher Stevens was in it.
shareThat's right, Jason Alexander with hair is so odd to behold I forgot about Fisher Stevens!
shareI love movies set in a camp. I have all the f13ths and Sleepaway Camps on dvd.
shareYeah I'm a big fan of camp movies too....Love Sleepaway Camps 1, 2 and 3, but Return to Sleepaway Camp is pretty terrible imo.
shareMother's day ( 1980)is another classic,two thugs torment three girls in the woods and their mother encourages them to hurt them.
shareI haven't seen Mother's Day in years but yes that is another good one!
He Knows You're Alone is another largely forgotten early 80s horror movie.
Is that the one with Tom hanks?I know he was in horror movie when he started his career.
shareWow good call on that, yes he is in it!
shareI wonder if the actors regret their early roles in horror movies,lol. Kevin Bacon (f13th) and Johnny Depp(Nightmare on elm Street) come to mind.
shareI would say probably not...at least not of the ones you mentioned because those parts didn't really hurt their careers and there was nothing all that embarrassing about them. Johnny Depp even made a cameo in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare so he must have at least some fondness for a role that gave him his start.
Now had Kevin Bacon or Johnny Depp been say the center link in a Human Centipede....then they feel some regret lol
Haha that made me laugh, thanks 😂
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I love when Christine kills the bullies.
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